Question 296 · LDEK · Children with systemic diseases and disabilities

Find true sentence on the extraction of a tooth in a patient after the radiotherapy of head or neck:

  1. A. the antibiotic cover is always required, regardless the time that passed since the termination of radiotherapy.
  2. B. administration of antibiotic is necessary only in the first year after the cessation of radiotherapy.
  3. C. dental local anesthesia should be performed with the vasoconstrictor agent, to ensure hemostasis.
  4. D. the extraction of a tooth can be performed in a patient during the radiotherapy in time of so called “ therapeutic window”.
  5. E. true are B,D.
Hint

Irradiated bone remains poorly vascularised for life — ask whether the risk of osteoradionecrosis ever expires.

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